Asian Heavy Metal Music

African Heavy Metal Music

Middle Eastern Heavy Metal Music

Reviews from bands in this area are planned for the future.

Australian Heavy Metal Music

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Heavy Metal Geography

Metal
is a worldwide phenomenon, spanning the globe and every race known to
humanity in the pantheon of its originators. From the spread of heavy
metal as the cheap jet fuel that represented the only vaguely relevant
aspect of colonialism to the emergence of death metal in populations of
alienated and critical youngsters immersed in the tradition and
anchored in the longstanding lineage of their nations, metal is an
outspoken voice of dissent, change, and abstract thinking in countries
and continents otherwise enslaved to the current world culture of mass
consumption, avoidance of the value of life in order to deny mortality,
slavery to subservience in order to escape the burden of personal
choice, and destruction of nature to obliterate the traces from which
we emerged as a species.

From
North America to Australia, from far East Asia to the nearer shores of
Europe, from the Norsk northlands and the South African steppes, and
even from the Middle East to Central America, death metal and black
metal and heavy metal and grindcore and thrash have manifested a
presence which is more or less permanent. Furthermore, the
civilizations within society have adopted it as a facile and resilient
voice in the style of cultures as diverse as the Native Americans of the
United States, the Inca in Peru, the Tamil in Sri Lanka, the
Montagnard in Laos, the Nordics in Sweden and the native peoples of the
Brazillian rainforest. All of this origination goes to show: metal
isn't about where you're from, but how you think - a tendency that
spreads itself alongside the world intellectual malaise of symbolic
denial.